From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 2 14:47:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25974 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 14:47:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25929 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 14:47:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA02158; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:17:04 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA04656; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:17:03 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980203091703.15005@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:17:03 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Sue Blake Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: they have mail References: <19980203085841.36073@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <19980203085841.36073@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Tue, Feb 03, 1998 at 08:58:41AM +1100 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Tue, Feb 03, 1998 at 08:58:41AM +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > I want to be notified (preferably by email) when mail arrives for a couple > of users on my system. This will be a rare event which needs a reasonably > quick response. > > I do not want to receive a copy of their mail, just know about it so I can > advise them. > > Which FM should I be reading? Your outgoing mail? You sent me information about a couple of programs that do this a few weeks back. Let's see... On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 03:28:40PM +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > Begin3 > Title: xmailbox > Version: July 16 1997 > Entered-date: Wed Jul 16 21:10:15 EET DST 1997 > Description: The main purpose of xmailbox is to get a user's > attention when new mail arrives. Xmailbox tries to > achieve this by using sound effects, color icons, and/or > icon animation. For sound effects, xmailbox currently > supports the NCD audio server, the Rplay audio server, > Linux's Sun-compatible audio device, Sun's audio device, > and any external sound player program. For color icons, > xmailbox uses XPM type 3 files. For animation, you can > configure xmailbox to play up to 8 XPM files in repeated > sequence. > Keywords: mail, mailbox, XPM, animation, sound > Author: dbouras@hol.gr (Dimitrios P. Bouras) > wcheung@mail.spiralcomm.com (William K. W. Cheung) > Maintained-by: dbouras@hol.gr (Dimitrios P. Bouras) > wcheung@mail.spiralcomm.com (William K. W. Cheung) > Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/mail/biffs > 42.5k xmailbox-2.5-src.tar.gz > 40K xmailbox-2.5-bin.tar.gz > Alternate-site: > Original-site: ftp.x.org /contrib/applications > 42.5K xmailbox-2.5.tar.gz > Platform: > Copying-policy: > End > Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 15:29:58 +1100 (EST) > From: Sue Blake > > Begin3 > Title: coolmail > Version: 1.3 > Entered-date: 15JAN96 > Description: A mail notification utility with 3D animation for X Windows > and un*x. It lets you know when you have mail, and can > launch your mail reader when you click on it. It can > also play a given sound. > Keywords: coolmail, email, mail, notification, biff, > xbiff, mailbox, xmailbox++ > Author: darrah@kaiwan.com (Byron C. Darrah) > Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/X11/xapps > 26809 coolmail-1.3.tgz > Platforms: X11, sound > Copying-policy: GPL > End In each case, you should run the program as the user in question, and instead of beeping, get it to send a message to you. Greg